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a RESUME
OF tho Circumstances Leading to tho Con.
Walton Of TIM Anarchists 4

OF tho Cir circumstances leading to tho Con.
sic.ion OF tho Anarchists.
Following Id a brief history OF the
thrilling events which led to tho trial and
conviction Of tho eeyon Anarchists. whose
death aentenceo have been affirmed by
tho Supreme Court Of Illinois:
/, It was May 4, 1856, a day only equalel
in importance in the history Of Chicago
by October 0. ,lS7l-the date Of the great
tlre-that tho memorable circular, IRE.
vense! Workingmen to arius!" wae
struck from the type Of the ArJeitsr
Z.itun9 Office, and was sent broadcast
among the socialietic and anarchist groups
Of the city. Following closely upon the
heels Of tho great riot at the Mccormick
reaper works, where handful Of police
had hold st bay mob Of thousands, tho
Grcupa were guaded TO frenzy and ready
for deeds Of violence. It was apparent
that tho great strikes, which had been in
auHurated May 2 by concerted move
ment under the direction OF tho fedora.
ton Of American trades, we've on the
point Of collapse, and in the fertile ground
OF ignorance and mad, unreasoning fury
the leaders OF tho anarchists had lost no
time In sewing the seed Of their deatruc.
tive doctrines. Carried away with the
fury oil their followers they believed that
the tins OF the "bloody revolution 50
long predicted and prepared for, was al
hand, and the hour Tor action had come.
THE MEETING. /; d. h;
That night q meeting was called on Hsy.
market square, ostensibly to denouuce
"the latest atrocious net Of the police" in
dispensing the mob about the Mccormick
reaper.works. A vague but very certain
feeling or prenentiment ran through the
city that tho meeting meant trouble, and
that q struggle Tor supremacy between the
Anarchista and tho police WAS 10 take
place. The night, at first pleasant, dark.
ened along toward . o'clock. An express
wagon was placed near tho alley north oil
Randolph street and near the Crane Man.
ufac!usiug Company's establishment, and
Was utilised 40 the speakers stand, Some
two thousand people stood in tue street
shout the wagon when August lSpies took
his place upon 1t and began to talk. His
speech abounded in wild abnss, OF the DO.
leo for their acts at the Mccormick RIOT,
and was followed by speech by a. r
Parsons. Il, which he advocated organized
etiorts by tho working people to force
employers 10 grant their demands. The
Z next speaker WEB Sam Fiolden, the ables.
and brainiest Of all the Anarchist leaders,
The darkening clouds gave evidence OF an
approaching storm, and good portion Of
the auditors OF tho earlier speeches had
gone before Fielden began. A motion was
made by Spies to adjourn to hall, when
Fielden said he would not speak much
longer. At ten minutes before 10 O'clock
the solid ranks Of the police wers seen ad.
.vancing from the Desplaines street sta
ton. Whom tho wagon waa reached Capt.
Ward stepped forward, and, reading the
riot act, commanded the crowd to dispense.
Fielden replied, "We are peaceable," and
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FOR, RENT,

FOR RENT-slX ROOM DWELLING
~ House. No. y Fifteenth street PossrysJon
given immediately. Apply to ". II. RINEHAKT,
ll63 M&rket street. " - ---L-L ~ Eclh
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Funeral will take place from her late residence,
No. n Seventeenth street. Sunday afternoon Ut
ao'clock. Friends o! tho family are invited to
attend. Inte,meat at Peninsula Cemetery,
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Pittsburgh and Return.

Commencing Sunday, June s, aud con-
tinulng every Sunday until further notice
tho Baltimore & Ohio will sell excursion
tickets to Pittsburgh and return at low
rate Of 81 50, and 10 Washington, Pa, and
return at 81 90. Trains leave at s and
$40 A. M, returning arrive at Z and lilo
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DIED.

klNGH0RN-At 1885 4. ~, Friday, September 10
1857, MRS. ANNE K1SGn0ES, wife Of the late
George Kingdom, sged IS years. months and
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started TO got down from tho wagon. Just
thon blue light srose from the alley, and
circliny over the beads Of tho crowd, de.
ecended between the solid ranks Of the
police. An instant later dynamite bomb
had exploded, and
elxrY or TuE roLicE LAY DEAD AND
o WOUNDED. ., S}g ".
For a second the police wavered, and
then opened IRE upon tho crowd with
their revolyert. Tho crowd responded
fsebly TO The FIRE. The police immediate.
~ charged, when the crowd ran In all di.
recsiona Then began the work OF caring
for the injured, who wero taken 10 the
DesplaineB street alation, where their
wounds were dresscd prior to removal to
the county hospital. OF the police seven
died from their wounds, while OF the
crowd at the meeting one was killed and
some twenty wounded, 90 far ~ known.
The arrest OF August SpleP, NJ ichael
Schwab, Samuel Fieldep, who was shot In
tbs knee at tho riot, Oscar Neebs, Adelph
Fiecher, Louis Llngg, and George Enge
| for completely in the murder Of the polIet
followed Immediately. A. Il. Parsons toi
| a tImo escaped arrest, but finally sur
rendered himself. Tho Arbsiltr Z:ittng
the organ OF tho Anarchists, WAC sup
pressed, and the Anarchist denB over tht
city wore raided, Then followed the In
dlctment OF the eight for the murder o
Officer Matthias ]. Degan. Ngl 4
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TWO BARGAINS

EIRsT.C GLASS SHORT CREEK FARM
a FOR SALE. ''5}'t re-, 2 ~ 3 ~ gfgl,N5
$50 Acres about 10 miles from Wheeling, two
miles from Short Creek Station, on T.. G.. d st. l..
halltoad; 20 acres creek bottom, about lC0 acres
soil. undcrlaid with the five iooti cam OF eood coal
Large brick house, rooms good water stable and
outbuildlnSs. For particulars enquire OF PErEa
DELAPLAta, on the premises, or l5;-El gs5h2E
gliS 2 - lsi5 g ". v. HOGE & Bro,
au9 81. 1900 Market Street, Wheeling, W, Va,
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ruE CASE WAS ARGUED
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Dr.. B. A. Gable, Dsuphin, Pa, saye: ~
find II invaluable In all cases for which II
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NOTICE.
Tho attention 81 the public L. called to tho fet,
lowing rules oil the Board Of Public Works,
3nRute IS. No person thal cast OF place any earth,
brick, or stone Except materials for bnildInv. n,
rubbish occnioned thereby. AZ Is provided iof IN
there rales} oeal, wood, 9th, asaes, lime, trottat
khaylngs, waste paper or rubbish Of any Mind on
my square. street. ALLEY or public place Of ihe civ
or tae hdewAtk Of any tuch square, Affect, alley q
public place Oh said city," ',1
"Rula a.. No person shall cncumber the side.
walks within THO city by plsclng, barrels. boxes,
substance, totheI than receiving or discharslns
90 As to prevent Eeisofs IRON passing along spch
sidewalk And no person shalt Keep aad permit
coal, wood, dirt rubbish, brct. stone OF Other
movable article on or over any street, alley or Side.
necessary IN tho transact!0n Of bu.iurts, loading
and unloading TO remove said articles"
Any person or rerons vialtiisg tho ptoyisfous
Of the above rules, will be dealt with as ptoyldcS
by ordinance. BY order Of tho
~ 5FEt=. V BOARD OF PUBLIC WORK..
J. II. LANCASTER Ceik. '-.l.o51- kpl6
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FOR SALE,

DOR sALE-SECOND.uAND STEAM
~ ENGlNE5-Ono SKA; one Sxa2: two ska:
ono 8}}Sxi2; two KIP: three 6xi2 Address, or call
on z. Q. Hare 81! Enn ktreht. L.n... Echh
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THE PENALTY AT DEATH, .l2,

Neebe WAS given fifteen yenro in the peai.
tertiary. The deisnilsnto wore greatly
affected BY the sentence. Thin ended the
great trial. ,sll. r. ~ -yi!@l ~
As the date for the execution approach
ed the most strenuoua exertions were put
forward by the socialists and anarchists
Ct the country to unto trade uniona and
the knights of Labor in i common csuse
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FOR RENT-THE ELEGANT RESI-.
Il DENCE situate on the northwest corner Of
nhapl!ne and Twelfth streets. and known az No.
1889 Chnpllno street. For terms and par,Iculars
apply to W. Il. RiNkHART. ii63 Market street. :
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trust with other establishments. His
present position in the business world
is but the OutgrOwth of long and meri-
tOrious endeavors. lie counts his
friends by the hundreds, and fully de-
serves the prominence and success he
has attained.
In conclusion, the REFLECTOR is
pleased to record the merits of so de-
serving an enterprise. Sterl & Zahner
went through the trying ordeal of fire,
losing everything, even book accounts
and all, three months after their CON-
mencement, but nothing daunted, rose
phenix-like, and scared above the
clouds of flame and smoke that had laid
their all in ashes. These were trying
hours for the new firm, but ten days
from the time that the fOrked tongued
monster had swept their earthly posses
sions from them, they were open again
for trade with a new stock, and since
that time they have SCARED higher and
and higher. until the present height
of prominence and Importance has been
attained.
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John S. Kelley made his appearance
in Dickinson County in 1871. with the
immense sum of 1920 in gold in his
pocket, but what has proved to be
worth more to him, an indomitable will
and a good stock of those three essen
tial attributes to success, energy, pluck
and perseverance. He purchased a
small stock of jewelry-necessarily
small with what money he had, and
launched his ship in the commercial
world, renting a S75 10x12 frame build
ing in Solomon City at an annual rental
of $3.50. His venture was a success.
He was bound to succeed, and he did.
His business Outgrew his surroundings
and he eventually moved to Abilene,
where he now has the satisfaction of
that he owns the best stocked
jewelry establishment in the state,
without an exception. The store he
occupies is large and cOmmOdiOus, be-
ing 24x75, and being situated on the
east side of Broadway, near Second
st. The ceilings are high, and the room
has substantial air well fitted to its
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journey to the Kansas land, in the
golden west. Ye whose Golfers CLEAN
with gold, burdened with the ore, come
where it will soon be rolled into millions
more come where land is selling cheap,
come, We favored few, and harvest We
shall reap, as We never knew; leave
your railway bonds and stock, leave
them to their rest, walk as every wise
man walks, to the golden west. Maid
ems in the hills of Maine, maids with
golden hair, come to where the grassy
plain, stretches everywhere come
where marriage fees are small, houses
cheap to rent, and husband, smooth
and tall, will not cost a cent. Husbands
thrOng this western plain, till you can
not rest; therefore take the quickest
train, to the golden west. Westward
come, o gilded youth, from thy eastern
home Here thou may in very truth, in
a country roam, where your hollow
breast will swell, swell With healthy
breath, and you'll ring the chestnut
bell, on the form of Death. Hither
come and upward grow, here your dimes
invest, and you'll never want to go,
from the golden west. Ancient man,
with hOary hair, in world of gloom,
looking down with solemn stare, down.
ward 10 the tomb, you can live for
many years, in land of sun, if you'll
cast aside your fears, and to Kansas
run here you'll grow and fatten soon,
till you fill your vest, come then ere the
leafy June to the Golden West.-GlObe. |
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Our Illustrations.

On many of the illustrations i'm this
issue will be noticed the imprint of the
Mills Engraving Company, of Denver,
Col. The quality of the work cannot
be excelled, and we heartily recommend
the'cOmpany to all in need of anything
in this line. In all our dealings with
the manager. Mr.. A. t. Mills, we have
found him uniformly courteous and ac-
cOmmodating. With such house it is
a pleasure to do business. We have
none but Iisr kindest feelings and the
best wishes of future success for the
Mills Engraving Company.
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spacious office room, furnished and dec
grated deliberately. In the rear are sep
arate apartments, partitiOned with fine
plate glass and hung with tapestry cur
tains. Each of these departments is
well furnished with desks for the Off
GERS and clerks, who are kept busy with
their several departments of work.
The company is made up of the lead
ing and enterprising citizens of Abilene
and Dickinson county, men who have
been tested in various branches of tusi-
ness, and proven to be successful,
efficient and reliable.
NJ. NJ. Shipe, the president, is a reg
ular rustler. His thoroughly practical
and prompt business qualifications have
won the esteem and confidence of all
with whom he has had dealings, and he
is evidently the right man in the right
place.
C. G. Hawk, the active secretary, an
old resident and business man, eight
years county treasurer, is extensively
known and thoroughly reliable.
j. S. Kelley, vice-president, Kan
san for twenty years, is one of Abilene's
leading and permanent business men,
of sterling ability and financial firm
ness.
J. Z. Bonebrake, one of the directors,
is enough in himself to give character
and reliability, as we'll as insured sue
cess, to any enterprise. He is president
of the First National Bank of Abilene,
president of the Abilene water works,
and also holds the same position of
the Salina, Newton and Clay Centre
water works; he is also president of the
Electric Light Company, and director
of the Abilene Street Railway Com
pany.
A. G. Marconnier, another of the d.
rectors, is a yonng and enterprising
man, of ability and promise.
Altogether, the members of the COM
pany are picked organization of per-
severing and successful men, and are
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for stock. There is scarcely one out OF
her fifty-two million of acres that is
not adapted to agricultural or pastoral
purposes. York Herald.
The Kansas farmer has this veal
proved himself a second and mightier
atlas. If the state ever changes her
coat of arms, the new crest should
show the Kansas farmer supporting
the world on his shoulders. His potent
alchemy has transformed the rich black
soil into millions of bushels of golden
grain, which goes forth to feed the
world.-New York Tribune.
| like Kansas; l like the Kansas
people They implanted in our soil
the principle of universal liberty. If
all the population of our country was
like the population of Kansas, our
noble institutions would have nothing
to fear. They were born in the strug-
gle for freedom when civil war. overran
our land. If all our people were like
the people of noble Kansas we should
always be free nation General L. S.
Grant.
The highways in Kansas, as
well as the railways, are filled with
people looking for homes. 1t is esti-
mated that the population of the state
will be Increased by immigration this
year many thousand more than for
several years, or rather since the early
rush was made to Kansas just after the
war. The wonderful crops Kansas has
produced for several consecutive years,
incites immigration, and there being
much unOccupied land in the state,
there is no reason why all seeking homes
may not find happy and remunerative
ones in Kansas, the greatest agricultur-
al state of the west.-ToledO Blade.
The time will come, and it will he
within the memory of some who do me
the honor to listen to me now. when
Kansas will have 100000 Of people,
and you will export more largely when
you have 100000 to feed from your
soil than you do to-day, for you have
only begun to scratch your broad do
main as yet. l know of you and about
you, and l have to say that from the
of the settlement of all the
states of the sUnited States, there is
none since the days of colonial adven-
ture tnat has about it the romance of
history as does the state of Kansas.
The history is the history of the defense
Of free labor and free soil.-James G.
Blaine.
Under the plastic hand of freedom,
now astonishing has been the growth
IF Kansas in intelligence, industry
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Doubtless God could have made
better country than Kansas, but doubt
less God never did.-Rev. John Pierre
pont.
Kansas has soil rich in the chemica
elements necessary for vigorous
growth of vegetatiOn.-Dr w. II
Saunders.
There is no monument under the
heavens On which 1 would rather have
my name inscribed than on the goOdly
state of ,Kansas.-Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher.
The resources the book describe, fill
the English mind with establishment
and envy.-London Times acknowledg-
ing the receipt of Kansas Agricultural
report.
In Kansas nobody takes courage, for
everybody is expected to exhibit it.
A few years will make Kansas the
garden of America.-ThOmas w. IIig-
ginsOn.
IdOn't know what mystery has brought
about the rapid development of Kansas,
except the mystery of education and
industry. w. T. Sherman.
Kansas is going ahead magnifcently
L predict that the child is born who
will see her fifth, if not fourth, in pop
ulatiOn and production among the
states of our union.-Horace Greeley.
l am seething with enthusiasm over
my visit to Kansas. Ali Brazil is as
nothing compared to what can be seen
of natural beauty and scientific realiza-
tion in that wonderful land.-Professo
Agassiz.
Every man has chance to make the
most of himself and his opportunities in
Kansas, and to those who have deter
mination and zeal, the country offers
advantages none of the older states can
do.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Kansas is probably the most prosperous
state in the union. 1t has had sue
cession of good crops. 1t has sprung
up in the scale of agricultural states to
a position very near the tOp.-St. Louis
Republican.
The early events in her history i'm
planted love of liberty and social
progress among the people of Kansas
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Sterl & Zahner.
A PROSPEROUS AND SUBSTANTIAL
GENERAL MERCHANDISE ESTAB-
LISHMENT,
WHOSE PROPRIETORs ARE THOROUGH
LY IMBUED WITH THE SPIRIT OF
MODERN PROGRESS AND
ENTERPRISE.

The large two floor house of Sterl &
Zahner is situated in the middle of the
block on Broadway, between Second
and Third Sts., the most central busi-
ness location in the city. The firm has
occupied this store, ON the west side of
Broadway, for the past six years, and
have one of the largest general mer-
chandise stocks in this part of the state.
They carry an average stock of from
S25, 900 to $4,000 and annually do a
business of about $4,000.
Their line of merchandise includes
dry goods, fine dress goods and trim
mings, clothing, boots and shoes, hats
and caps, and ladies wrappings, and
the two large saiesrOoms, large, light
and airy, are filled from floor to ceiling
with the different lines of goods. The
ground floor is occupied wholly with
dress goods, trimmings and general dry
goods, while the upstairs room is filled
with the other branches of merchandise
! in great varieties. Ten clerks and a
boOkkeeper are employed in the estab-
lishment, and it is the best systemiZed
and arranged store in the west. One
feature of the sOlidity of this firm is the
fact that they pay for every dollars
worth of goods they buy before the
same is placed upon their shelves.
They pay cash for everything, and get
the benefits of all discounts.
The senior member, Mr.. G.. C. Sterl,
came to Abilene in an early day, and
worked for Mr.. w. S. Hodge, on a sal
airy. He is self-made man, one of the
solid men of the place financially, has
just concluded his service as council
man for the second ward, is large real
estate owner, and has made his entire
wealth by economy, business sagacity,
and good judgment in the matter of in
vestments. He holds high place in
our social circles, and enjoys the conf
dence and respect of every one.
The Junior member, Mr. A. Zahner,
is the personifcatiOn of business in
tegrity, is an experienced man in all
the branches of trade, and has general
supervision of the inside details of the
establishment. He was, before enter
ing this business, clerk of large ex-
perience and held many positions of
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which must contribute TO make her one
of the most prosperous. populous and
wealthy states in the union.-John
Sherman.
The prestige of Kansas is due to three
causes. LIST. Her political troubles and
warfare for freedom, which elected
universal sympathy; End. The fertility
of her soil, the superior of which does
not exist; Sd. The activity of her citi-
zens.-New York Independent.
Few state agricultural reports are so
thoroughly complete as that Of Kansas.
1t is a compendium of the resources
and development of a state that has
long lived under a prophecy almost
amounting to promise, that it is soon
to become the first state in the union in
wealth and Importance. Massachusetts
Plow.
1 like Kansas better than l expected
to. The soil is richer and deeper; the
timber is more diffused; the country
more rolling than had supposed there.
/ consider Kansas well watered-no
prairie state better. Springs, streams,
creeks and rivers are almost universal.
Horace Greeley.
The people of Kansas are restless for
progress; new manufactures are build
ing; new roads are contracting. The
newspapers are multiplying and enlarg-
ing, school houses are almost within a
stones throw of each olher, industrial
developments have already brought
leisure for intellectual pursuits.-New
York World.
All my work in securing early colo
MES for Kansas, has been paid for Il
thousand times by the sight of her hap
Ply and prosperous people. Kansas is Il
state unrivaled in soil and climate, but
her highest honor is her population.
Their intelligence, enterprise and
character make them worthy of the
grand middle states and of her history.
Eli Thayer.
On every hill in the corn land of
Kansas rests the hall of plenty, and yet
there are men foolish enough to emf
crate to country where is starvation in
a garment of snow eight months of the
year. The magnificent crops of the
past few years show Kansas is the en-
pire state, without rival and without
peer-Kansas City Journal.
OF all the grain states, both old and
young, the most remarkable is Kansas
She springs to the front in her average
yield per acre in her cereal crops
while her nutritious native pasturagt
affords an inexhanstible supply of foot
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Take dIwn ynur map, and yuu will
find that the territory of Kansas, more
than any other region, occupies the
middle spot of North America, equally
distant from the Atlantic on the east
and the Pacific on the west; from the
frozen waters of Hudson's bay on the
north and the tepid gulf stream on the
south, constituting the precise territor-
ial center of the whole vast continent.
To such advantage of situation, on the
very highway between two oceans, are
added soil of unsurpassed richness
and a fascinating, undulating beauty
of surface, with health giving climate,
calculated to nurture a powerful and
generous people, worthy to be central
pivot of American institntions.-Cha
Summer.